Re: [PLUG] My Holy Quest for a WYSIWYG HTML Word Processor

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 1/25/23 01:23 PM, Casey Bralla (Mail List) via plug wrote:
> I don't know why this is so hard to find, but as they said in that old Tom Baker Doctor Who episode, "The Quest is The Quest".
>
> I'm on a holy quest for a WYSIWYG HTML word processor.  It seems like lots of other people would want this also.
>
> On the hope that it does exist, and I've just not invested enough time in searching, does anybody know of a WYSIWYG HTML word processor?
>
> My desires are:
>
>  1. Basic word processing + the standard extras such as footnotes, spell check, table of contents, etc
>  2. Reveal Codes capability ala the old WordPerfect so you can actually see what the underlying document structure is
>  3. Uses HTML (or XML) as the markup language
>  4. Real-time WYSIWYG, just like any modern word processor. (NOT export and view separately!)
>  5. Formatting controls like a normal word processor (NOT manually adding HTML codes to get formatting)
>
> I don't need all the super complex features of LibreOffice Writer of MS Word, but holy-moly, why is this program missing from the market?  As far as I can tell, EVERY word processor out there emulates the terrible, confusing, awful design concepts of MS Word.
>
> Anybody got any suggestions?

That used to exist in MS FrontPage (horror!), though the HTML code it wrote was beyond terrible.  Google "MS Frontpage alternatives" and there are lots of hits.

And as you note, FP was a lot like Word, or as I call it, Turd.  The original versions of Word were not terrible, except for the deliberately obfuscated proprietary file format.  But I think all the MS Office products have been totally unusable for years now due to interface bloat.  And their pretend open file format still sucks.  Libre/Open/Star-office kinda work, but these days give me Markdown or Asciidoc for the win.

Later,
JP
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